02 April 2010

Willie Nelson, Texas Style (With Ray Charles)

Willie Nelson, Texas Style was first broadcast by CBS on 5 March 1988. "The gentle, easy, visually lovely outing, with Nelson roaming the plains, at his Texas Hill Country ranch, in a boat on the Rio Grande, or in the studio making music, makes you appreciate the Lone Star State," the Vindicator wrote. The music was mixed with testimonials by friends & family.
Willie performed On The Road Again, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys, Asleep At The Wheel, South of The Border, and more. Ray sang Milk Cow Blues with Nelson, and solo'ed on Georgia On My Mind. The other guests were Asleep at the Wheel, and Bruce Hornsby and The Range.

Studio vs Live

"If it's really something good that was not on the record, that's okay, because when I perform I can make the performance of the song better than the record was."

The Genie

Ray Charles at the Apollo (Oct. 1959), working on his Wurlitzer. Photo by Alex Harsley.

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The Ray Charles Video Museum is a research project, documenting live performances by The Genius.

This blog is above all aMediagraphy. It's also a discography (or, more correctly, a trackography), aggregating all tunes that Ray sang and/or played - including the "canon" of 700 tracks listed on the official Ray Charles website, but also identifying the songs that have never been officially released, and e.g. the recordings of other artists, where Ray backed them on piano. Thirdly, this blog has evolved into a multimedia Chronology (click the years in the panel al the top of this page) of Ray's productive live.

I also try to do some justice to the more than 1,000 great musicians and singers who contributed to Ray's career (1, 2).

The Quotes page lists the wisest, craziest and funniest things that the Genius ever said. If you want to read more about Brother Ray, go here.

The availability of the streaming video and audio content on this blog is constantly under pressure. Some rights owners still think that sharing these videos damages their sales. I'm keeping disfunctional clips as placeholders - to show that the footage exists, and to replace them when new uploads appear on the Web.

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The Bishop Of Atlanta - Ray Charles

The Bishop seduces the world with his voice
Sweat strangles mute eyes
As insinuations gush out through a hydrant of sorrow
Dreams, a world never seen
Mounded on Africa's anvil, tempered down home
Documented in cries and wails
Screaming to be ignored, crooning to be heard
Throbbing from the gutter
On Saturday night
Silver offering only,
The Right Reverend's Back in Town
Don't it make you feel all right?